slowday444 Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 Sometimes things are locked up so tight Task Manager doesn't open and Process Lasso and Tamer have never helped. I'm skeptical, but we'll see! http://www.freewaregenius.com/2009/07/27/s...ram-via-hotkey/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwillener Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 Yes, I sometimes encounter near-total lockup situations when debugging very large apps with Visual Studio. It can take hours for the Task Manager to pop up, and another hour or so to terminate the VS process. I will give it a try... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators hazelnut Posted July 28, 2009 Moderators Share Posted July 28, 2009 What about this as an alternative? http://techmirage.com/how-to-terminate-fro...with-a-shortcut Support contact https://support.ccleaner.com/s/contact-form?language=en_US&form=general or support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted July 28, 2009 Moderators Share Posted July 28, 2009 What about this as an alternative? http://techmirage.com/how-to-terminate-fro...with-a-shortcut That's a mighty good find! I've implemented that now with a desktop shortcut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators hazelnut Posted July 28, 2009 Moderators Share Posted July 28, 2009 Xp users (not pro) will need to use the word tskill in the shortcut destination instead of taskkill Support contact https://support.ccleaner.com/s/contact-form?language=en_US&form=general or support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slowday444 Posted July 28, 2009 Author Share Posted July 28, 2009 Thank you for the XP Home fix hazelnut! Now I'm armed to the tilt so we'll see how they work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slowday444 Posted July 28, 2009 Author Share Posted July 28, 2009 Some other tricks someone linked on Wilders Security. http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/1...e-with-superf4/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 Hazelnut, how did you know that 'taskkill' had to be changed to tskill, dropping the a & extra k? It worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DennisD Posted July 28, 2009 Moderators Share Posted July 28, 2009 Nice one hazel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators hazelnut Posted July 28, 2009 Moderators Share Posted July 28, 2009 Hazelnut, how did you know that 'taskkill' had to be changed to tskill, dropping the a & extra k? It worked. http://www.computerhope.com/taskkill.htm Support contact https://support.ccleaner.com/s/contact-form?language=en_US&form=general or support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 I finally had an opportunity to try this. Unfortunately, it doesn't do much on Windows XP Home. Apparently tskill.exe does not support the /f parameter (forcefully terminate) so it is not particularly effective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators hazelnut Posted August 4, 2009 Moderators Share Posted August 4, 2009 That's disappointing Glen that it doesn't support the /f switch when xp pro does. Ah well, back to the drawing board. Support contact https://support.ccleaner.com/s/contact-form?language=en_US&form=general or support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slowday444 Posted August 4, 2009 Author Share Posted August 4, 2009 I finally had an opportunity to try this. Unfortunately, it doesn't do much on Windows XP Home. Apparently tskill.exe does not support the /f parameter (forcefully terminate) so it is not particularly effective. So right you are! I just hit the quick start icon I made just to see if it would even close the browser but all it did was momentarily flash the cmd prompt. Then I did use Super F4 and it shut it right down. I haven't actually had a "locked" event since I installed it so I can't say how it will work during a real issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDPower Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 That's disappointing Glen that it doesn't support the /f switch when xp pro does. Ah well, back to the drawing board. What about if you use pskill from MS/Sysinternals which I found does the job on my XP Home in my batch files where tskill wouldn't work: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb896683.aspx Or even easier there's a link to download taskkill here: http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/ezine...ls.htm#TaskKill (Have scanned it and comes up clean and seems to work as it should) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 I looked at the documentation for pskill but it doesn't seem to support the /fi (filter) parameter. I found a couple of other sites (just Google "download taskkill.exe") that offer free copies of taskkill.exe but I'm not familiar with them and don't know if they're legitimate. Is computerperformance a safe site? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDPower Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 I found a couple of other sites (just Google "download taskkill.exe") that offer free copies of taskkill.exe but I'm not familiar with them and don't know if they're legitimate. Is computerperformance a safe site? As far as I'm aware it is and as I said I scanned the download with everything I had and uploaded to VirusTotal and was completely clean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
formfrank84 Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 Sometimes things are locked up so tight Task Manager doesn't open and Process Lasso and Tamer have never helped. I'm skeptical, but we'll see! http://www.freewaregenius.com/2009/07/27/s...ram-via-hotkey/ Hey! that would be nice. My system also suffers when I process some high end memory programs. I hope nevertheless that it works and that there are no backdoor installs. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ident Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 Isn't all this based apon the asumtion you can navigate to the shortcut? No fate but what we make Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slowday444 Posted August 9, 2009 Author Share Posted August 9, 2009 Isn't all this based apon the asumtion you can navigate to the shortcut? Well the mouse might be frozen but not the keyboard so Super F4 might work. Although I finally had a freeze and neither responded so it may also be a failure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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